A day after failing to produce the 12 persons that were arrested at the residence of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, before the Federal High Court, in Abuja, the Department of State Services on Friday allowed their lawyers to see only four of them in detention. This follows an order by a Federal High Court on Thursday that the agitators must be produced.
A day after failing to produce the 12 persons that were arrested at the residence of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, before the Federal High Court, in Abuja, the Department of State Services on Friday allowed their lawyers to see only four of them in detention.SaharaReporters learnt that the DSS, however, kept back eight persons in custody, claiming that the names it was given were wrong.
"This follows an order by the Federal High Court judge in Abuja this week that they must be produced," a source told SaharaReporters on Friday. At the resumed hearing in the case on Thursday, the secret police failed to produce the applicants but made effort to justify its inability to comply with the court’s order.
The agency also paraded the 12 supporters of the activist, alleging that they attacked DSS operatives during the raid. They also asked for an order “mandating and compelling the respondents to produce the applicants before this honourable court and show cause as to why the applicants should not be granted bail in accordance with the provisions of section 32 of Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015”.
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